Linda Kathryn Bockenstedt MD

Biographical Info

Dr.
Linda Bockenstedt is the Harold W. Jockers Professor of Medicine, Section of
Rheumatology, and Director for Professional Development & Equity at Yale
School of Medicine. She received her undergraduate degree in chemistry
and physics from Harvard College and is a graduate of the Ohio State University
School of Medicine. After completing residency training in medicine and serving
as Chief Resident in Medicine at Yale, Dr. Bockenstedt obtained rheumatology
clinical and research fellowship training at the University of California, San
Francisco. She returned to Yale as
a faculty member in 1989 where she teaches postdoctoral and medical trainees in
the clinical and laboratory arenas and directs a research program devoted
toward understanding the pathogenesis of Lyme disease, an infection-related
rheumatic disease. Her research
has been continually supported by the National Institutes of Health since 1990,
and she is internationally recognized for her studies of the host immune
response to spirochetal infection.
Dr. Bockenstedt is a Fellow member of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, and an elected member of the Kunkel Society and the
Interurban Clinical Club. She is a
former standing member of the Immunity and Host Defense Study Section at NIH and
former member of the Board of Directors for the American College of
Rheumatology Research & Education Foundation. In 2006, she was named Director for Professional Development
& Equity at Yale School of Medicine, a newly created position designed to
advance faculty development and diversity.

International Activity

Multiphoton imaging of the in vivo effects of antibiotics on Borrelia burgdorferi in miceLjubljana,
Slovenia(2010)12th International Conference on Lyme Borreliosis and other Tick-Borne Diseases: Invited Plenary Speaker